Sentence examples for archaic institutions from inspiring English sources

Like many associated with archaic institutions, the duke was a charming contradiction.

Equally, cultural theorists cannot ignore the archaic institutions, as much as we may want to.

The rapid changes also prompted antiquarian studies as Roman senators looked back to archaic institutions and religious rituals of the distant past to legitimize or criticize the present.

It concluded that the two major parties were "probably the most archaic institutions in the United States" — scarcely more than "loose associations of state and local organizations, with very little national machinery and very little national cohesion".

One commission member, a county executive, said, "Our system of local government has barely evolved over the past one hundred years and we are still governed by these same archaic institutions formed before the invention of the light bulb, telephone, automobile and computer".

The story seems to be a classic case of archaic institutions being replaced by new tech and innovative entrepreneurs.

It is a misuse of the archaic institution of an electoral court to convict someone on the charge of corruption.

While his mother tackles the Vatican, Justin McAleese may be about to challenge the shibboleths of another archaic institution: Fianna Fail.

The public at large is used to the Anglican Communion's continuing internal wrangles about women bishops and homosexual clergy and probably regards such matters as out-of-date squabbles within an archaic institution.

But now he is reinvented; he is on the way to establishing himself as the official interpreter of an ancient, archaic institution to the generations that are already distant in both time and culture from the world that sustains his grandmother.

After all, with two children aged over 10, a dog, a mortgage, 24 years of living together and dozens of rows, we feel we've pretty much worked out how to be a "happily unmarried" couple, and we don't see why we need to fall in with an archaic institution to validate our relationship.